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I for one am very interested in living in Africa – I don’t like the way the western world is headed. There is too much control over everyday life, and the pressures and cost of modern living take their toll. Historically, let’s face it, the majority of black people outside of Africa are likely to be the descendants of African people brutally enslaved and transported across the world in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. This trade was is a crime against humanity which the white European race still hasn’t managed to bring itself to terms with in order to make reparations. Nevertheless, despite the injustice, despite the institutionally racist mechanisms of government and social services, some black people are managing to break through and fight for a quality of life on the same level with their white counterparts.

Despite this, I have found the fact that we still generally have to work a lot harder and put up with more discrimination and disadvantage a tiresome aspect of life in the western world. Not to mention having to suffer the indignity of despicable characters popping up all over the political arena who have a desire to return to a past where they considered themselves to be more “great” than they are now, which of course was only achieved by denigrating black people.

Back the the video, it talks of self sufficiency, and a different way of life in Africa, encouraging the diaspora to return. It has some good points about research, visiting countries to find out more about them on the ground. It’s also a great point, that self sufficiency is hard – really you need a community, even a small one to share the workload which one person, or even one family might find difficult if problems were to affect health, wealth or ability in some area.

However, where I disagreed with this video is that Babylon IS EVERYWHERE. Babylon is a spiritual principality representing all powers in opposition to Yah. This is why Babylon is termed “Mystery Babylon” in Revelation chapter 17. Ron Dalton Jr. apparently considers America to be Babylon exclusively, and I get it, but he doesn’t realise that in the same way that you can accept the spirit of Satan and be one with him through rejection of the Messiah (Romans 6:16), so too can nations be united with Babylon, by policy, by economic framework, by social standards etc. To say America is Babylon is far too simplistic, and it risks making Africa an easy prey to those who will by any means will do what they need to do to extend their systems of control across the planet. Africa and the people in it need to be wise enough to establish their own system and avoid being caught up in the clutches of Mystery Babylon and the rulers and authorities present in the various kingdoms and nations that support it.

However, I agree with Ron Dalton Jr, there will be no spaceships!

This video posses a serious question though. Should the return of the African Diaspora to Africa be a return based on economic necessity, social and cultural preference, or should it be rooted in spiritual revelation, restorative justice (Isaiah 49:8) and and a unified vision that creates a powerful people, once separated, but now re-united? Maybe it is all things, but one thing is for sure, we can’t return without God in the picture and without unity, we are just another kingdom that will fall (Matthew 12:22-28).